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SUMMARY:Early Science with the Murchison Widefield Array - Natasha Hurley-
 Walker (ICRAR\, Australia)
DTSTART:20120711T103000Z
DTEND:20120711T163000Z
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CONTACT:David Titterington
DESCRIPTION:The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a 128-element radio ape
 rture array situated in the SKA-low site of Murchison\, Western Australia\
 , operating at 80-300 MHz with 1.28 MHz spectral resolution and 30 MHz of 
 instantaneous bandwidth.  Its field-of-view encompasses a thousand square 
 degrees in a single snapshot\, and it images to arcminute resolution\, mea
 suring complete polarisation information.  As well as detecting the signal
  of cosmic reionisation\, observations made by the MWA will open windows i
 nto galactic and extra-galactic science\, solar and heliospheric science a
 nd detect new population of transient sources.  We will also produce a sou
 thern-sky survey likely to result in many serendipitous discoveries.  I wi
 ll discuss the expanding science possibilities available in the coming yea
 rs as the instrument develops toward its full capabilities\, comment on th
 e calibration challenges of aperture arrays and present current results fr
 om the 32-element prototype array.\n
LOCATION:Ryle Seminar Room\, Cavendish Laboratory
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